
Excitedly my son exclaimed. “I’ve got a wren”. Then on the way back to the car he was dawdling, reviewing his photos on the LCD screen. “Do wrens have white throats?” he asked. Back at the car he got out our RSPB handbook and finally figured out what he had photographed.

There are about 1.1 million territories in the UK of this summer migrant. For such a small bird it travels incredible distances: from the UK to central Africa for winter, only to make the return trip in the mid April.